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If There's One Thing I'm Not Going To Apologise For As The Leader Of The Liberal Democrats In Government After 60 Or 70 Years Of Being Out Of Government, It's That You Just Cannot Avoid But Deal With The World The Way It Is.

Joining The Liberal Party Was A No-brainer For Me... And When You Are A Young Man, You Don't Get A Calculator Out Saying, 'am I Going To Get To Power?' You Get Propelled Forward By Idealism.

I Say This As A Young Dad Seeing Children Going Into Primary School: I Don't Think We Should Underestimate The Formative Effect On A Child Of Those First Years In Primary School.

What I Hope Is In Five Years' Time, I Can Go To The British People In The Election And Say: Lots Of You Doubted That Coalition Politics Worked, But It Has Worked.

I Totally Rule Out Any Arrangements With The Snp — In The Same Way I Rule Out Any Arrangements With Ukip - Because There Is No Meeting Point For Me With One Party That Basically Wants To Pull Our Country To Bits And Another Party That Wants Us To Pull Out Of The Eu. I Would Never Recommend To The Liberal Democrats That We Help Establish A Government Which Is Basically On A Life Support System, Where Alex Salmond Could Pull The Plug Any Time He Wants.